/tribulation

Starts, observes and clears a tribulation by hand, without waiting for a breakthrough. start needs the gamemaster permission, and every node also exists as /mxt tribulation ….

• /tribulation ...

  • ... start <id> [<target>]

    Starts a tribulation.

  • ... status [<target>]

    Reports the run, how far it has got (entry 2, 5 left) and what the current entry is keeping.

  • ... stop [<target>]

    Clears the run, leaving exactly the state a finished one leaves.

It goes through the same path a breakthrough uses — the start gate, the per-entry validation before the run begins, and one entry consumed per tick afterwards are all unchanged; only the decision to start one is replaced. That is what makes the command both a trigger and an observer.

/mxt tribulation start mxt_test:probe_timeline
/mxt tribulation start mxt_test:probe_timeline @e[type=minecraft:armor_stand,limit=1]
/mxt tribulation status
/mxt tribulation stop

For start, id is data/<namespace>/mxt/tribulation/<path>.json, and tab completion lists everything the loaded datapacks register. A refusal says why: a run is already under way, the timeline is empty, the start gate does not hold, an entry cannot run right now, or an event cancelled it.

status prints the state in the spelling the save would use, so {"remaining":37,"type":"mxt:idle_countdown"} means this beat has 37 ticks left, and not begun (empty) means the entry has just come up and has not written anything yet. A definition with a wind-up reports still winding up, %s ticks left instead, because the timeline has not started consuming yet and an entry number would be a lie.

The target must be a living entity

A tribulation lives in an entity attachment and is advanced by that entity's tick. A summoned subject therefore works without a player logged in — give the selector a position with execute positioned and keep it single with limit=1:

/execute positioned 0 100 0 run mxt tribulation start mxt_test:probe_timeline @e[tag=probe,limit=1]
/execute positioned 0 100 0 run mxt tribulation status @e[tag=probe,limit=1]

Argument	Default	Description
id	required	The tribulation definition id.
target	the executor	Which living entity the run belongs to.